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<h2>Panel Datas of Individual Wages </h2>

<h3>Description</h3>

<p>a panel of 595 observations  from 1976  to 1982
</p>
<p><em>number of observations</em> :  4165
</p>
<p><em>observation</em> :  individuals
</p>
<p><em>country</em> :  United States
</p>


<h3>Usage</h3>

<pre>data(Wages)</pre>


<h3>Format</h3>

<p>A dataframe containing :
</p>

<dl>
<dt>exp</dt><dd><p>years of full-time work experience</p>
</dd>
<dt>wks</dt><dd><p>weeks worked</p>
</dd>
<dt>bluecol</dt><dd><p>blue collar ? </p>
</dd>
<dt>ind</dt><dd><p>works in a manufacturing industry ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>south</dt><dd><p>resides in the south ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>smsa</dt><dd><p>resides in a standard metropolitan statistical are ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>married</dt><dd><p>married ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>sex</dt><dd><p>a factor with levels (male,female)</p>
</dd>
<dt>union</dt><dd><p>individual's wage set by a union contract ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>ed</dt><dd><p>years of education</p>
</dd>
<dt>black</dt><dd><p>is the individual black ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>lwage</dt><dd><p>logarithm of wage</p>
</dd>
</dl>



<h3>Source</h3>

<p>Cornwell, C.  and  P.  Rupert (1988) &ldquo;Efficient estimation with panel data: an empirical comparison of instrumental variables estimators&rdquo;, <em>Journal of Applied Econometrics</em>, <b>3</b>, 149&ndash;155.
</p>
<p>Panel study of income dynamics.
</p>


<h3>References</h3>

<p>Baltagi, Badi H. (2003) <em>Econometric analysis of panel data</em>, John Wiley and sons, <a href="http://www.wiley.com/legacy/wileychi/baltagi/">http://www.wiley.com/legacy/wileychi/baltagi/</a>.
</p>


<h3>See Also</h3>

<p><code>Index.Source</code>, <code>Index.Economics</code>, <code>Index.Econometrics</code>, <code>Index.Observations</code>,
</p>
<p><code>Index.Time.Series</code></p>


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